All they would have to do is go to the restroom. I’m not diabetic, but would anybody inject themselves with insulin right in their seat in front of everyone? Perhaps some would, but it wouldn’t seem odd to go to the restroom for some privacy.
Being that the apparent goal is to blow a hole in the side of the plane, the restroom would be sufficient.
I am diabetic. if I need my insulin injection, I take it. Period. I doubt that anyone even notices. I can shoot through my shirt with no problem.
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Why should I go to a bathroom, a room filled with germs? Would you want to get a flu shot while standing in a garbage dump? I need Insulin to live. I WILL NOT be forced into a germ filled environment in order to tend to my health needs. I can and do test and inject in restaurants at the table and the people I am dining with never even notice.
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Yeah, but wasn’t the point that they need to be seated close to the wall of the airplane for this to work? The amount of PETN is not enough to do damage unless it blows a hole in the skin of the plane so that it decompresses suddenly and blows apart. I’m not sure the lavatory would do the trick but others know better about the engineering involved here.
But my comments were premised on that assumption. Otherwise, I would agree. But that’s all the more reason why this method of bombing has a drawback—to inject yourself in public rather than in the bathroom draws attention and now, thanks to the Fruit-of-Kaboom bomber, suspicion and action.
If, however, the plane could be destroyed by detonating 4 oz. of PETN in the bathroom, then their method will work.